[Sheflug] Boot

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Darrell" == Darrell Blake <dazblake [at] Btinternet.com> writes:

    Darrell> Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm wanting to
    Darrell> add text to my boot up so I can see what is being loaded
    Darrell> up. Like, when it's loading up PCMCIA devices or whatever
    Darrell> I could put a line of bright green text before it saying
    Darrell> "PCMCIA Devices". It would make it much easier for me to
    Darrell> see what was happening and I'm just wondering if this is
    Darrell> at all possible.

It certainly is - Redhat has been doing this for as long as I've been
using it.

Redhat's /etc/rc.d/rc/sysinit is the one to look at.

I can email the complete script to you if you wish offlist, but the
general idea seems to be:

#!/bin/bash
[...]
# Start up swapping.
action $"Activating swap partitions: " swapon -a -e
[...]
# Set the hostname.
action $"Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname ${HOSTNAME} 
[...]

and so on for filesystems, RAID, sound, USB, etc, etc.

Cheers.

Baz


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